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Subject
Religious.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259355 (EE54)

Ivory

Height: 205mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; brooch; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand.

Museum's opinion 2009: French, late 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: object (flower?) originally held by the Virgin.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

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